The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Published 2012 · 24,200 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Agony of Eros to read?
The Agony of Eros scores 63 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 68 out of 100
- Continental philosophical vocabulary, unglossed.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Short declarative sentences carrying heavy freight.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Eros treated as a philosophical category.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Very compressed; a short book assuming a long tradition.
How The Agony of Eros is regarded
The Agony of Eros holds a literary regard score of 47 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.